Usually means: Events or actions taking place.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word happens:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. happens: Merriam-Webster
  2. happens: Collins English Dictionary
  3. happens: Vocabulary.com
  4. Happens, happens, happens: Wordnik
  5. happens: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. happens: Wiktionary
  7. happens: Dictionary.com
  8. happens: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. happens: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. happens: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. happens: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. happens: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. happens: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See happen as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (happen)

verb:  (intransitive) To occur or take place.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To happen to; to befall.
verb:  (intransitive or impersonal, with infinitive) To do or occur by chance or unexpectedly.
verb:  (followed by on or upon) To encounter by chance.
verb:  (informal) To become popular or trendy.
adverb:  (obsolete or dialect) maybe, perhaps.
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